I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn
all golden in the sunset.
Langston Hughes has a lot of pride in his heritage and loves to celebrate, in his writing, the existence of his people. He is aknowledged for his work during the harlem renaissance. This painting i think recognizes the beauty behind African American art, that Hughes so passionately writes about.
-By Langston Hughes
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn
all golden in the sunset.
Langston Hughes has a lot of pride in his heritage and loves to celebrate, in his writing, the existence of his people. He is aknowledged for his work during the harlem renaissance. This painting i think recognizes the beauty behind African American art, that Hughes so passionately writes about.
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